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Wednesday, February 19
RNC asks North Carolina Supreme Court to resume proceedings in election challenge
* The Republican National Committee (RNC) and North Carolina GOP asked ([link removed]) the state Supreme Court to resume proceedings in an election challenge regarding a seat on its own bench.
* Republicans are attempting to overturn North Carolina Supreme Court GOP candidate Jefferson Griffin’s loss to Democratic incumbent Justice Allison Riggs in November. They filed ([link removed]) a lawsuit Dec. 31 seeking to toss 60,000 ballots in the 2024 election from voters with allegedly “incomplete” registration information.
Advocacy group asks court to hold Trump administration officials in contempt
* The AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition asked ([link removed]) a court to hold members of President Donald Trump’s administration in civil contempt for refusing to comply with a court order that blocked it from cutting off funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Trump directs DOJ to fire remaining U.S. attorneys appointed by Biden
* Trump directed ([link removed]) the Department of Justice (DOJ) to fire all remaining U.S. attorneys appointed by former President Joe Biden, claiming on social media that the DOJ has been "politicized like never before" in the past four years.
Pardon me, but who was just pardoned?
* Who are the nearly 1,600 criminals that Trump pardoned and how violent were their actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot? In a new piece, Cameron Tiefenthaler of the Prosecution Project explains ([link removed]) just how brazen and dangerous the formerly accused and convicted are.
Trump’s incompetency and the immigration shell game
* Trump continues to prove his incompetence in enforcing immigration law but he is succeeding in destroying democracy. In a new piece, Robert McWhirter considers ([link removed]) whether this could be part of a plan to discourage immigrants from coming to the U.S. at all.
Marc breaks down the latest updates in voting rights litigation and Trump cases
* Taxpayer advocates and unions filed ([link removed]) a lawsuit Tuesday to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing and retaining sensitive data from the Internal Revenue Service. In a new YouTube video, Marc walks through ([link removed]) the lawsuit seeking to stop DOGE from obtaining taxpayers' personal information.
* Trump’s administration asked ([link removed]) the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the recent dismissal of Hampton Dellinger, the head of the office of the special counsel — the nation’s top independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency. In a recent YouTube video, Marc breaks down ([link removed]) the case and how the Supreme Court may approach it.
* In a 4-3 ruling, the Wisconsin Supreme Court dismissed ([link removed]) a right-wing lawsuit that sought to limit early absentee voting locations and prevent future use of a mobile voting van deployed by the city of Racine during the 2022 election cycle. In another YouTube video, Marc explains ([link removed]) this victory for voters.
Hearing coming up tomorrow
* A hearing will be held in Washington D.C. regarding nonprofit groups’ request to block the Trump administration's federal funding freeze as litigation proceeds. The groups — who already secured a temporary restraining order in their case — argue ([link removed]) the freeze violates federal law.
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